Sunday 6 January 2019

YEKHIEL TSVERGINSKI


YEKHIEL TSVERGINSKI (1898-August 31, 1965)
            He was born in Lodz, Poland.  He received a Jewish and a general education.  Until 1923 he worked as a teacher in Lodz in the Jewish girls’ high school.  Later, until WWII, he lived in Paris, where he graduated from the Sorbonne with a doctoral degree.  He published popular scientific articles in: Lodzer tageblat (Lodz daily newspaper) and Folksblat (People newspaper) in Lodz; Haynt (Today) in Warsaw; and Parizer haynt (Paris today) in Paris; among others.  He authored scholarly works in French and German.  He escaped from the Germans to Geneva and later died there.

Sources: Unzer vort (Paris) (September 2, 1965); obituary notices in the Yiddish press.
Khayim Leyb Fuks


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